Images Dated 23rd August 2004

Olive Baboon - mother with young on back

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Olive Baboon - mother with young on back
Maasai Mara National Park - Kenya - Africa
Papio hamadryas anubis
M. Watson
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Africa, African, Babies, Babies On Back, Baboon, Baboons, Baby, Baby On Back, Carrying, East Africa, Kenya, M Ammals, Maasai Mara, Mammal, Mother, Mother And Young, National Parks, Primate, Primates, Wild Life, Young

Blue, Cloud, Cloud Cover, Cold, Day, Europe, Fog, Grass, Grass Family, Hazy, Hill

Blue, Cloud, Cloud Cover, Cold, Day, Europe, Fog, Grass, Grass Family, Hazy, Hill, Horizon, Lake, Mist, Mountain, Mountain Range, Natural, Nature, Non-Urban Setting, Outdoors, Rannoch Moor, River, Rock, Rock Face, Rocks, Rocky, Rural Setting, Scenics, Scotland, Snow, Snowing, Square, Stream, UK, Waterhole, Winter, chill, color, colour, grassland, grassy, heathland, landscape, natural planet, water, water hole, David Henderson Photography, 77279737

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Andromeda Galaxy with brightness contour lines

Great Andromeda Galaxy. Optical image of the Great Andromeda Galaxy (M31; NGC 224) overlaid with contour lines which link areas of equal brightness. Andromeda has a bright, dense central bulge surrounded by dimmer spiral arms. The galaxy is located 2.2 million light years from Earth in the constellation Andromeda, & is the most distant object that can be seen with the naked eye. It is the nearest galaxy to our own, the Milky Way. At about 200, 000 light years across Andromeda is the largest galaxy in the "local group", the cluster of around 25 galaxies that includes the Milky Way

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